Tropical Cyclone Ann strengthened over the Coral Sea on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ann was located at latitude 15.4\u00b0S and longitude 153.6\u00b0E which put it about 565 miles (910 km) east of Cairns, Australia.\u00a0 Ann was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 987 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Ann exhibited greater organization on Sunday.\u00a0 There were indications on satellite images that a cloud filled eye might be trying to form at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A broken ring of thunderstorms surrounded the eye and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Tropical Cyclone Ann.\u00a0 Storms near the core were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 100 miles (160 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Ann will be moving through an environment that contains factors favorable for intensification and a factor that will inhibit potential intensification.\u00a0 Ann will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there will be sufficient energy in the upper ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Ann will move north of an upper level ridge.\u00a0 The ridge will produce easterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the shear will not be strong enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Ann is surrounded by drier more stable air and the drier air is the factor that will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 So far, the circulation around Ann has kept the drier air outside the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 If the drier air remains outside the circulation, then Tropical Cyclone Ann would have a chance to strengthen.\u00a0 However, if the drier air gets pulled into the circulation, then Ann will weaken.\u00a0 The higher probability is that Tropical Cyclone Ann could maintain its intensity or weaken slowly during the next day or two depending on what happens to the drier air.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Ann will move north of an area of high pressure, which will steer the tropical cyclone toward the west-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Ann will approach the Cape York Peninsula north of Coen in less than 48 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Ann could bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to northern Queensland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Ann strengthened over the Coral Sea on Sunday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Ann was located at latitude 15.4\u00b0S and longitude 153.6\u00b0E which put it about 565 miles (910 km) east of Cairns, Australia.\u00a0 Ann was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,76,2],"tags":[1508,1505,78,991,1415,1509,79,82,1507,1504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7738,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions\/7738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}